Email

r.brandon.hunter@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics - Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

MD from University of Virginia School of Medicine

Charlottesville

BA from University of Virginia

Charlottesville

Certifications

PALS

AHA

BLS

AHA

ACLS

AHA

ATLS

ACOS

Lean Six Sigma White Belt Institutional Certification

Boston Children's Hospital

2017 Lean Six Sigma White Belt Institutional Certification, Boston Children’s Hospital.

Honors & Awards

Hematology, Cardiology, Microbiology, Immune System Academic Excellence Award

2012

University of Virginia School of Medicine

BCRP Handbook

Contributing author to sections of Emergency Medicine, Toxicology, and Pediatric Critical Care.

Boston Children's Hospital

Grant Judge

Alongside industry and venture capital partners, judged pediatric device competition entrants and awarded grants up to $50,000 in development funding.

Boston Pediatric Device Consortium

Medical Consultant

2014-2016, Advised company regarding development of clinical care software development.

Dorsata

Project Lead

2016 – 2018 , Led team of computer scientists, physicians, and business partners in digitizing the hospital’s antibiogram and created a central antibiotic stewardship reference app. Project won in-kind business and development support from Harvard Business School startup competition. Project resulted in improved antibiotic stewardship among frontline providers.

Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator

Member

2019, Developing healthcare innovation education opportunities for high-level academic researchers at CHOP.

CHOP-Wharton Collaborative

Ad Hoc Analyst, Office of Technology Transfer

2019-2020, Performed prior art searches and market analyses of medical innovation disclosures.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Medical Advisor

2020-2021, Providing medical advising to a group developing an innovation education platform for hospital systems.

Innocation

Website Content Developer

2020-2021, Primary content developer in creation of an independent, centralized, website to connect and educate a broad range of stakeholders interested in pediatric device development.

Philadelphia Pediatric Device Consortium

Student Fellow

2020- Worked with a team of business and clinical innovators to develop a proof-of-concept plan to accelerate scientific development and commercialization of novel hydrocephalus treatment device in children and adults.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum Proof-of-Concept Program, Science Center

Beta Testing Group

2021, Beta Testing Group. Pedi Crisis App 2.1 Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.

Society for Pediatric Anesthesia

Board Member

2021- Present, Group lead, Pediatric Advisory Council. Advised regarding projects designed to bridge the digital health gap in pediatrics.

Institute for Pediatric Innovation, Boston, MA

Member

2021- Present, Consortium with $1.5M annual budget from the FDA. Advised early-stage start-up pediatric medical device companies regarding clinical and regulatory process to accelerate inventions. Awarded grant funding.

Southwest Pediatric Device Consortium

Lead Advisor

2021- Present, Served as lead advisor in development of a functional prototype for a novel noninvasive endotracheal tube position localizer

Texas A&M Biomedical Engineering Capstone

Clinical Trialist

2021- Present, Served as PI and primary advisor for several devices, see Research and Bibliography for detail

Texas Children's Hospital

Project Participant

2016-2018, Helped design, present, and propagate Asthma Action Plan initiative to improve patient adherence to home medications.

Boston Children's Hospital Clinical Informatics

Resident Project Lead

2017-2018, "Just a Squeeze to Prevent VTEs”

Boston Children's Hospital QI Initiative

Fellow Representative

2018-2021, rounding script and read back

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PICU QI Initiative

Fellow Representative

2019, Diabetes Insipidus Pathway, Published online at https://www.chop.edu/clinical-pathway/central-diabetes-insipidus-clinical-pathway

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia PICU

Fellow Representative

2020-2021, Ingestion Pathway

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia PICU

Instructor

2009-2011

Exam Krackers MCAT Review

Editor-In-Chief

2014-2015, Mulholland Report Clerkship Review, Editor-In-Chief

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Pre-Clerkship Simulation Course Instructor

2016-2018

Boston Children's Hospital Simulation Center

Instructor and Facilitator

2018-2021, Resident PICU Simulation and Mock Code Events

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Professional Statement

Dr. Hunter is committed to high-quality and compassionate care for patients and their families. Clinically he is passionate about the application of point of care ultrasound. His research interests focus on medical device and digital health development, and he is most interested in how academic medical centers can effectively interact with industry to encourage innovation in pediatrics and move the field forward.

Websites

Professional Development

Diamond Blacfan Anemia

Seminar (Participant, 2016)

Sponsor: Boston Children's Hosptial

Diamond Blackfan Anemia, Senior Rounds, Boston Children’s Hospital

Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Reversible Leukoencephalopathy

Seminar (Participant, 2017)

Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital

Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Reversible Leukencephalopathy, Senior Rounds, Boston Children’s Hospital

Viral Encephalitis Management and Complications

Seminar (Participant, 2017)

Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital

Viral Encephalitis Management and Complications, Senior Rounds, Boston Children’s Hospital

ARDS and Sepsis – Balancing Fluid Management with Competing Interests

Conference (Participant, 2018)

Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital

ARDS and Sepsis – Balancing Fluid Management with Competing Interests, Residency-Wide Noon Conference, Boston Children’s Hospital

The Ins and Outs of Enteral Access

Seminar (Participant, 2018)

Sponsor: Boston Medical Center

The Ins and Outs of Enteral Access, Senior Rounds, Boston Medical Center

Approach to Hypoglycemia in the PICU

Conference (Participant, 2018)

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Case Conference, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Post-Cardiac Arrest Care

Seminar (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Post-Cardiac Arrest Care, Monthly Resident Lecture, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Sepsis and Septic Shock

Seminar (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Sepsis and Septic Shock, Monthly Resident Lecture, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

PICU Procedures

Seminar (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

2019-2021, PICU Procedures, Monthly Resident Lecture

Mechanical Ventilation and ABG Interpretation

Seminar (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

2019-2021, Mechanical Ventilation and ABG Interpretation, Monthly Resident Lecture

Airway Skills Workshop

Workshop (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

2019-2021, Airway Still Workshop, Monthly Resident Lecture

Traumatic Brain Injury and Increased Intracranial Pressure

Seminar (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

2019-2021, Traumatic Brain Injury and Increased Intracranial Pressure, Monthly Resident Lecture

Anterior Mediastinal Mass Management

Conference (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Critical Care Case Conference

VV ECMO and Ventilator Management with Severe Air Leak Syndrome

Conference (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Critical Case Care Conference

ARDS and use of the VDR Ventilator

Conference (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Critical Care Case Conference

Cardiac Arrest Case Review Conference

Conference (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Critical Care Case Conference

Evaluating the Practice of Repositioning Endotracheal Tubes in Neonates and Children Based on Radiographic Location

Course (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Critical Care Journal Club

Defining Benefit Threshold for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Children with Sepsis

Course (Participant, 2020)

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Critical Care Journal Club

Supervised Machine Learning Applied to Automate Flash and Prolonged Capillary Refill Detection by Pulse Oximetry

Conference (Participant, 2018)

Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

2018-2020, Research Conference

Introduction to Mechanical Ventilation

Seminar (Participant, 2021)

Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital

Resident Lecture

Selected Publications

• Hunter RB, Winston FK, Dehel P, Oh K, Nicklas J, Hartung H "SPRINTing to Innovation: A Large Academic Medical Center’s Strategic Approach to Discovering its Untapped Innovation Potential." 2020 Nov;
• Hunter RB, Jiang S, Nishisaki A, Nickel A, Napolitano N, Shinozaki K, Li T, Saeki K, Becker L, Nadkarni V, Masino A. "Supervised Machine Learning Applied to Automate Abnormal Capillary Refill Detection by Pulse Oximetry." 2020 Oct;
• Yarahuan J, Hunter RB, Nadar D, Gujral N, Fine A, Flett K "Improving Antibiogram Accessibility and Empiric Antibiotic Selection with the Creation of Institutional Digital Antibiogram Tool." 2019;

Projects

Diagnosis and Management of Central Diabetes Insipidus in Critically Ill Children Varies Among Pediatric Providers

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (12/2020 - present)

Data collected, manuscript in process with planned submission to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine,

Improving Antibiogram Accessibility and Empiric Antibiotic Selection with the Creation of Institutional Digital Antibiogram Tool

(10/2020 - present)

Preparing submission to Applied Clinical Informatics

Evaluation of Hemodynamic Effects and Outcomes of the LUCAS Chest Compressor in a Pediatric Swine Model

Currently collecting primary data for analysis.

Memberships

Boston Children's Hospital

Academy Leader

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Co-Leader

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Member

American Academy of Pediatrics

Member

Massachusetts Medical Society

Member

Funding

Boppli Study

Unrestricted funding from PyrAmes

01/2022

Languages

Spanish